Aftermath (The Remaining, Book 2)

To Captain Lee Harden, undertaking homeland seems like a far off dream and the of completion of his undertaking turns out unattainable.
Wounded and weaponless, he has stumbled upon a bunch of survivors that turns out prepared to aid. yet a tragedy within the crew explanations a deep rift to come back to mild and forces him into motion. within the chaos of the realm outdoors, Lee is pursued by means of a brand new hazard: a person who will cease at not anything to get what he has.

"I see your destiny essentially. Your grasp might be useless, and you'll be by myself. it'd be higher if you happen to had by no means been born. " Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the neighborhood Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts. yet now a brand new threat is threatening Tom's international: the witches are emerging and the 3 strongest clans are uniting in an effort to conjure an incredible evil.

Shirley Jackson's 3rd novel, a chilling descent into a number of personalitiesElizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her lifestyles away at a lifeless museum task, dwelling along with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her lifeless mother’s inheritance. whilst Elizabeth starts to endure bad migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the healthcare professional, then to a psychiatrist.

Whilst information reviews begin showing of a zombie outbreak in eire, B's racist father thinks it is a joke-- yet no matter if it's not, he figures, it really is okay to lose a couple of Irish. B does not totally purchase into Dad's racism, yet figures it is more uncomplicated to move besides it than to hazard the fights and abuse that would absolutely stick with sticking up for Muslims, blacks, or immigrants.

Set in a village during which the ladies get stuck up in occult rituals and wholesale slaughter perpetuated within the identify of the Amazon ladies, the goddess of the cult being incarnated within the kind of the town's girl mayor. The evil merely occurs at evening - and in simple terms occurs to males.

I’m convinced we will be able to determine whatever out. ” Julia seemed again on the smattering of gaunt-faced survivors huddled on the nurses’ station. Slowly, she nodded. “Okay. ” Lee keyed the radio. “Captain Harden to Camp Ryder. Captain Harden to Camp Ryder. Harper or Miller or a person from Camp Ryder. Does anyone replica me? ” He published the push-to-talk button and waited. a quick burst of static stuffed the air, yet no reaction got here. every person jumped on the screeching sound of steel on tile flooring as LaRouche and George shoved an immense submitting cupboard up opposed to the door to the japanese stairwell. They grunted and groaned and at last obtained the article in position. It needed to weigh no less than 300 kilos, however it was once top-heavy. With sufficient contaminated pounding at it and attempting to climb over it, the item could ultimately tip over. LaRouche and George grew to become and started searching for different heavy gadgets to stack within the doorway. Lee repeated his makes an attempt at the radio, receiving an identical reaction. not anything. “What can we do now? ” anyone moaned. Julia pointed to a redheaded girl. “Barb, do you've gotten any rope? ” She appeared in brief flustered. “I can try and locate some…” “Do that,” Julia recommended. She raised her voice. “Everyone, we have to locate rope. and a few soft-restraint straps—like the sort they've got at the gurneys—and a few backboards. The backboards tend to be orange or yellow and so they seem like a bit surfboard with handles at the aspects. ” Then she pointed at Lee, every piece dependable. “You preserve making an attempt that radio, Captain. And preserve these stairwell doorways secure…” Her previous couple of phrases have been drowned out through the sound of LaRouche and George without warning shouting because the japanese stairwell door used to be thrown open and dozens of mad voices started screeching at them from the opposite part of the barricade. TWENTY-ONE the single effortless DAY… LEE SPUN AND POINTED at Julia and the crowd of survivors status stock-still in the back of her with significant eyes and open mouths, frozen in terror. He needed to shout to make himself heard over the ear-splitting feral screams of the contaminated. “Gather what you wish! We’ll carry them off! ” She nodded as soon as and became on her heels. The stillness within the staff of survivors in the back of her broke into frenzied movement, every body shouting and pointing this fashion and that. males broke off from the crowd, certainly one of them with a scuffed and bloodstained baseball bat, the opposite with a vintage wood-handled AK-47. Lee was once stunned to work out it, as as a rule he’d noticeable not anything yet looking rifles and carrying shotguns within the fingers of the typical survivor, however the AK-47 used to be the main synthetic firearm on the planet. He must have been shocked that this was once the 1st one he’d stumble upon. “We’re with you, Captain,” the fellow with the AK-47 stated. Lee didn’t reply to him yet became and made for the stairwell, the place he may well see LaRouche together with his again braced up opposed to the submitting cupboard and George suffering to push one other, just a little smaller one into position to reinforce the 1st. the 1st cupboard lined the sides of the door with room to spare yet left a couple of two-foot hole on best.